What a weird yet wonderful feeling

Sitting at Panera studying developmental anatomy of the heart for the next anatomy test, I am suddenly struck by this sudden thought that I'm actually in med school. Yes, silly I know. After all, I've been talking about my experiences for the past several months, but sometimes I just have to pinch myself and realized it's not a dream. It's such a weird thought. Okay, so I can't help but people watch while I'm here. A very diverse crowd comes and goes. From the little children begging their parents to carry their own tray of food to the young teenage girls discussing the latest new drama in their life (it's funny to think that life doesn't change much as far as what we experience- just different variations of the same general concepts I suppose) to the old couples looking so sweet together, I am surrounded by life! Where am I going with you might ask- oh, I don't really know, except to say that life, of all varieties, is wonderful! Even while I go through what everyone around me deems misery (I myself even feel that way at times), I still feel privileged to have this life, to experience it, to taste it, feel it and live it. I just got an email from a friend in Ethiopia that I met this summer. He was telling me about all that is going on there and I couldn't think about how blessed I was to be sitting at Panera eating a bagel, drinking coffee, and studying for my test:-)